Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-11-15
FIELDEN AND soHwAB ESCAPE.

FIELDEN AND soHwAB ESCAPE.
On the morning of the 10th Gov.
Oglesby announced that he had deci-
led to commute the sentence of Sam
and Michael Schwab to life
and let the law take
its course with the others. This was
not unexpected, as the officers of the
court that convicted the Anarchists
had signed the petition of these two
LINGG SUICIDES.
Louis Lingg, the worst one of the
gang, had all along declared that he
would not be hanged. On Sunday Of
last week four bombs made of gar
pipes were taken from him, which had
been conveyed to him in some mys-
FERROUS manner. In spite of the re-
newed vigilance of the guards, he got
hold of a dynamite cap or cartridge
with which he committed suicide
Thursday morning. The cap wal
from IL to 2 inches long. 1t wal
made of copper and the outer end
plugged with a piece of lead. The
copper was filled with dynamite
Then came a small portion of fulmi'
nate Of mercury, powder similar to
that used in percussion caps. Into
this powder ran a fuse. Lingg de-
liberately placed this deadly explosive
in his mouth and lit the fuse with the
candle left in his cell. A fearful ex-
plosion startled the guards and when
they reached his cell Lingg was lying
in a pool of blood with his face blown
into an unrecognizable mass of bloody
shreds. The suicide fingered for sew
eral hours, Notwithstanding the
horrible condition he was in.
A QUADRUPLE HANGING.
August Spies, Adolph Fischer, Al
bert II. Parsons and George Engel
we're hanged in the Jail yard at II :57
/. m. There was no disturbance Of
my kind. The trap was sprung by
sheriff Canute r. Matson and Engel's
leck was the only one broken. The
,ther three were strangled to death.
Spies last words were: "There will
;ome a time when our silence will be
more powerful than the voices they
ire strangling to DEATH" Fischer and
Engel both died with the words
'Hurrah for Anarchy" on their lips
and Parsons was begging to be al
lowed an opportunity to speak when
the trap fell. His last words were
"Let the voice Of the people DO heard
All of the men died game. Tht
bodies were turned over to the fami
lies of the dead and were Inferred OF
Sunday. The Mayor granted permits
sion for funeral procession to be
had, but refused to allow any speech.
es to be made.
OFF FOR THE PEN.
Fieldenan Schwab were taken tC
the Joliet penitentiary Saturday
where they will remain during thu
remainder of their lives. Theil
heavy boards were cut off and they
at once donned the striped garb o.
felons.
THE CRIME.
During the strikes of last yeal
August Spies called a mass meeting
at the Haymarket, in Chicago, and
an immense throng assembled. In
cendiary speeches were made by
Spies, Parsons, Fielden and others
An extra detail of police were or
dersd to disperse the meeting. I'm
mediately a dynamite bomb wa
thrown and Matthias began ant
five other policeman were killed an(
many Othors wounded. The polio,
fired into the mob and number o
the Anarchists were killed and tn
rest put to flight, after many shot
had been fired. Seven of the RIM
leaders were arrested and their tria
began on June 2lst. Parsons, VIII,
had escaped, walked into the cour
room and gave himself up and askc,
10 be tried with the others. TIL
seven named above were sentence,
to death and Neebe, the eighth, t,
life imprisonment. The case wen
up from court to court until the U
S. Supreme court had passed upon it
declining to interfere. Then thre,
Of the condemned-Spies, Schwal
and Fielden-threw themselves upor
the mercy of the Governor with thu
result above given. The other foul
refused TO beg for mercy.
OF the seven mon Spies was 2;
years old and editor of the Arbeite'
Zictung. He was born in HeSse and
came to America in 1872. He wal
unmarried, though a cranky young
female named Nina Van Zandt was
married to him by proxy last sum.
mer, his brother representing him al
the alleged ceremony.
Parsons was born in Montgomery
Ala, in 1S4S and was a Confederat,
soldier. lie subsequently edited tn,
Spectator, a weekly paper at Waco
Tex. He married a mulatto in 1877.
and was forced to leave Texas. II,
became editor Of the Alarm a
Chicago in 1884. He leaves two
children and wife who iS a worse
Anarchist than he was.
Lingg was 80 years old and wa
born in Germany. He had been il
this country but five years. He wa
a carpenter and bomb-maker. II,
leaves no family,